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2011 Rabbit Year Elements

Rabbit Year 2011 is considered with regard to the characteristics of those born
during Rabbit Years. Influences of the 5 Elements upon these individuals are
outlined and some general recommendations made before well-known links between
longevity, Rabbits and this fourth Sign of the Chinese Zodiac are discussed

Your birth year, the Fourth Sign of the
Chinese Zodiac? If you become 12, 24,
36, 48, 60, 72 (and so-on in 12-year increments). between 3rd February 2011 and
23rd January 2012 (when Rabbit Year ends) or know of a baby due during this
period, this article might interest you and, similarly, those with partners,
friends, relatives or colleagues in this category. Others might wish, in
general, to discover what Chinese Culture and Tradition has to say about those
born in The Year of The Rabbit.

Animal Games

Once, the animal Olympics were held to determine which animal should start the
cycle via a race ending with crossing a raging river before a sprint home. Smart
rat gave the cat the wrong start time, sneaked a ride on Ox's back over the
river and dashed over the finish line first (Ox came second). The cat (Tiger)
arriving late for the race came third, was furious, and consequently has been
chasing the rat ever since! Lucky Rabbit (see below) found some stepping-stones
and arrived next.

Rabbit Resume

Essentially Rabbits are relaxed, laid back and into various forms of
cultivation. They are considered the most fortunate of the 12 Animal signs of
the Chinese Ganzhi System.They rarely gamble (being conservative at heart and
risk-averse) but do so skillfully when tempted. They are reliable and
trustworthy and the last to renege on contractual commitments but can be a
little too easy-going at times. Fond of gossip they are articulate, virtuous and
well-liked. In relationship terms, Rabbits, who enjoy secure comfortable
home-life, are most 'at-home' with those born under the Signs of the Sheep, Dog
and Pig and least with those born under the Signs of the Rooster and Rat

Animals in Their Element

Underpinning the continuing 12 Year Animal Cycles is a 10-Year Elemental Cycle
(5 Elements repeating sequentially in first Big Yang and then Small Yin Mode)
with the Year Element (Yin Metal in the case of Rabbit Year 2011) modifying both
Year Energies and Rabbit individual natures as shown below, So far, in this new
12-Year Cycle (beginning in 2008) Year Animals and Year Elements have been: 2008
Yang Earth Rat; 2009 Yin Earth Ox; 2010 Yang Metal Tiger and 2011 Yin Metal
Rabbit. These will be followed in 2012 and 2013 by a Yang Water Dragon and Yin
Water Snake respectively.

Rabbit Retrospective

Those born this Rabbit Year will be Yin Metal Rabbits but in earlier 12-Year
Cycles this necessarily varied and their 'resume' requires modification as
follows.